US Fed News Service, Including US State News back issues from Thursday, May 3:
USDA Rule on Revision of Salable Quantity for Class 1 and Class 3 Spearmint Oil Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Legislation on Civil Judicial Procedure, Administration, and Technical Amendments Act Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Judicial Conference of the United States. The Secretary has transmitted the report of draft legislation entitled "Civil ...
State Dept. Report of Texts and Background Statements of International Agreements Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of State. The Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs has transmitted, pursuant to the Case-Zablocki Act, 1 U.S.C. 112b, as ...
DOE Legislation Intended to Implement Convention on Supplementary Compensation for Nuclear Damage Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Energy. The Secretary at DOE has transmitted the report of draft legislation intended to ...
USDA Rule on Final Free and Reserve Percentages for Crop Natural Seedless Raisins Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Homeland Security Rule on Electronic Presentation of Cargo Information for Truck Carriers Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Homeland Security. The Director at the Regulations and Disclosure Law Division has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule ...
Postal Regulatory Commission's Report Relative to Implementation of Sunshine Act Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Postal Regulatory Commission. The Chairman has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report ...
EPA Report Relative to Implementation of Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Land Withdrawal Act Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Environmental Protection Agency. The Administrator at EPA has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report relative to the ...
USDA Rule on Changes in Hourly Fee Rates for Science and Technology Laboratory Services Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Commerce Annual Report Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Commerce. A chief administrative officer at the Patent and Trademark Office ...
USDA Rule on Modification of Administrative Rules Governing Committee Representation Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Justice Rule on Control of Chemical Precursor Used in Illicit Manufacture of Fentanyl Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Justice. The Deputy Assistant Administrator at the Office of Diversion Control has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled "Control of a Chemical ...
USDA Rule on Outgoing Quality Control Requirements Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
USDA Rule on Olives Grown in California Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Report Relative to Judicial Conference's Determinations on Four District Courts Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Judicial Conference of the United States. The Secretary has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report relative to the Conference's determinations on four ...
OPM Annual Report Containing Certain Statistical Data Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Office of Personnel Management. The Director at OPM has transmitted, pursuant to law, an annual report containing certain fiscal ...
USDA Rule on Exemption of Onions for Export Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
DOD Rule on Federal Acquisition Circular 2005-16 Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Defense. An acting senior procurement executive at DOD's Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer has transmitted, pursuant to law, ...
Annual Report Relative to Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Program Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has received an executive branch communication from the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. The Chairman has transmitted, pursuant to law, an ...
Report Relative to Army's Recruiter Incentive Pay Pilot Program Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Armed Services Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of the Army. The Acting Secretary has transmitted, pursuant to law, a report ...
USDA Rule on Olives Grown in California Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
Commerce Rule on Final List of Fisheries Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Commerce. The Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs at the National Marine Fisheries Service has transmitted, pursuant to ...
Legislation Intended to Create Additional Article III Judgeships Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Judiciary Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Judicial Conference of the United States. The Secretary has transmitted a draft bill intended to create additional Article III judgeships and ...
HHS Rule on Blood Vessels Recovered with Organs Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Director at HHS's Regulations Policy and Management Staff has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a ...
USDA Rule on Apricots Grown in Designated Counties in Washington Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Department of Agriculture. The Administrator at USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled ...
PBGC Rule on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans Sent to Senate
May 03, 2007 ... WASHINGTON, May 3 -- The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has received an executive branch communication from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. The Interim Director at PBGC has transmitted, pursuant to law, the report of a rule entitled "Benefits Payable in ...
Pennsylvania Inventor Develops Radiotherapeutic Beams Aligning Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Ning J. Yue of Gibsonia, Pa., has developed a method for aligning radiotherapeutic beams from a generator thereof to a patient location. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method using matrix transformations of the ...
Colorado Inventors Develop Disk Drive with Write Current Temperature Compensation
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Richard Pederson of Boulder, Colo., Dale Landgren of Fort Collins, Colo., Jerry Moline of Denver, and David Rewerts of Longmont, Colo., have developed a disk drive that provides temperature compensation for write current. According to the U.S. Patent & ...
U.S., Belgian Inventors Develop Telecommunications Network
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Allen M. Holmes and Terence A. Robb, both of Colorado Springs, Colo., Andrew Dugan of Superior, Colo., Ajay P. Deo of Lewisville, Texas, Wendy T. Wong of Dallas, and Sami Syed of Tervuren, Belgium, have developed an apparatus for deploying services on a service node in ...
German Inventors Develop Microcomputer System Protection Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Michael Beuten of Schwieberdingen, Germany, Klaus Schneider of Ludwigsburg, Germany, Ralf Angerbauer of Stuttgart, Germany, and Bernd Illg of Eppingen, Germany, have developed a method of protecting a microcomputer system against reading and/or manipulation of data ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Electrostatic Suction Driving Apparatus
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Hidetaka Furusho and Takuya Nagai, both of Miyagi-ken, Japan, have developed an electrostatic suction driving apparatus that is driven by electrostatic force. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of stator-side electrodes disposed in ...
Hungarian, Finnish Inventors Develop State Information Management Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Jerry Lahti of Budapest, Hungary, and Tuomas Keranen of Helsinki, Finland, have developed methods for managing state information associated with user agents in systems that utilizes the wireless application protocol (WAP). According to the U.S. Patent & ...
Taiwanese Inventor Develops Digital Camera Lens System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Wen-Hsin Sun of Tu-Cheng,Taiwan, has developed a lens system for a digital camera that consecutively includes a first lens element, a second lens element, and a third lens element. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first lens element is ...
German Inventors Develop Tire Condition Variables Transmission System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Helmut Fennel of Bad Soden, Germany, and Peter Lohberg of Friedrichsdorf, Germany, have developed a system for transmitting tire condition variables. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The present invention ...
Kansas, Nevada Inventors Develop Standoff Radiation Attenuation System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- John A. Cadwalader of Overland Park, Kan, and William W. Orrison of Las Vegas, have developed a system for attenuating radiation applied to an article undergoing a radiological examination of a target area. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Magnetic Disk Apparatus
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Yoshiyuki Nagasaka of Kawasaki, Japan, has developed a magnetic disk apparatus that formats a single data frame as a single sector. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The magnetic disk apparatus includes a read-out control unit that controls ...
California Inventor Develops Multiple Output Phase-Locked Loop
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Ion E. Opris of San Jose, Calif., has developed a multiple output phase-locked loop (PLL) that uses a single voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "PLL methods and apparatus are described for generating ...
California Inventors Develop Mixed-Media Messaging Delivery System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Edward Archibald of Berkeley, Calif., and Spencer James Brewer III of Redwood Valley, Calif., have developed a method for delivering a mixed media message on a client node coupled to a host node over a network such as the Internet. According to the U.S. Patent ...
New Hampshire Inventors Develop Light Emitting Diode Lamp
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Charles M. Coushaine of Rindge, N.H., Thomas Tessnow of Weare, N.H., Fred Peterson of Sanbornton, N.H., Kim Albright of Warner, N.H., Florence Taitel of Hooksett, N.H., and Howard Eng of Hancock, N.H., have developed a light emitting diode (LED) lamp with LEDs on a heat ...
Arizona, Indiana Inventors Develop Secured Data Updation Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Desi Stelling of Glendale, Ariz., Vance Walker of Anthem, Ariz., and Timothy Schulze of Lanesville, Ind., have developed a method for controlling customer-implemented data updates. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for ...
Idaho Inventors Develop Planarity Diagnosis System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Michael H. Martin of Middleton, Idaho, and Brett Crump of Boise, Idaho, have developed methods of verifying planarity of a microelectronic component support of a microelectronic component test system with respect to a head of the test system. According to the ...
California Inventors Develop Interval Timer
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Dennis M. Klein of Thousand Oaks, Calif., has developed an interval timer that comprises a polygonal shaped housing with a front side and another side. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interval timer that is constructed of a polygonal ...
Missouri, Georgia, Illinois Inventors Develop Flexible Container with Flat Walls
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Albert L. Baner, Harold Bennett and John Ratcliff, all from St. Joseph, Mo., Jerry E. Buchanan of Douglasville, Ga., Rodney A. Buchanan of Marietta, Ga., and Todd A. Miles of Chicago, have developed flexible containers for housing products. According to the U.S ....
Virginia Inventors Develop Secure Network Mobility Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Ravi Nagarajan and Hari Gadi, both of Fairfax, Va., Gowri Makineni of Alexandria, Va., Qiang Zhang of Falls Church, Va., and Dzung Tran of Ashburn, Va., have developed a method of establishing and maintaining secure communications between a home network ...
Maryland, Virginia Inventors Develop Dual Response Acoustical Sensor System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Stanley A. Fisher of Boyds, Md., and Gideon Maidanik of Arlington, Va., have developed a dual response acoustical sensor system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An array of pressure sensors and motions sensors is contained in a layered ...
Chinese Inventors Develop Image Pick-Up Lens System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Zhuo Wang, Guo-Fan Jin, Ying-Bai Yan, Min-Qiang Wang and Ji-Yong Zeng, all from Beijing, have developed an image pick-up lens system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pick-up lens system includes an aperture stop, a biconvex first ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Multilayer Inductor with Shielding Plane
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Hyunjun Kim of Chandler, Ariz., and Jiangqi He of Gilbert, Ariz., have developed a multilayer inductor with shielding plane. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a first portion of an inductor disposed in a first layer ...
Georgia Inventor Develops Electronic Communication Back Trail Identification Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Paul Judge of Alpharetta, Ga., has developed systems and methods for upstream threat pushback. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to systems and methods for detecting and preventing the delivery of unsolicited ...
Oregon Inventor Develops Motorcycle Front Suspension
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Michael Czysz of Portland, Ore., has developed suspension components for two-wheeled vehicles. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "motorcycle whose front end has a coil-over shock disposed within the head tube and ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Charge Transfer Image Device Manufacturing Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Seok-ha Lee of Seoul, South Korea, has developed a doping mask and methods of manufacturing charge transfer image device and microelectronic device using the same. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a doping mask and methods of ...
Oregon, California Inventors Develop Bicycle Trailer Hitch Assembly
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Richard C. Everett of West Lynn, Ore., and Oscar E. Smith of Brea, Calif., have developed a trailer hitch assembly for a bicycle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "bicycle trailer hitch assembly including first and ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Fuse Structure
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Stan E. Leigh, Tom P. Abadilla, Donald W. Schulte and Terry McMahon, all from Corvallis, Ore., have developed a fuse structure. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The fuse structure includes a first region adapted to be coupled to a voltage ...
Oregon Inventors Develop Electrical Contact
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Phil Geng and Stephen C. Joy, both of Portland, Ore., have developed methods of fabricating a via-in-pad with off-center geometry. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electrical contacts, such as ball grid array solder balls, of an ...
Florida Inventor Develops Light Emitting Diode Operating System
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- John T. Petrick of New Port Richey, Fla., has developed a light emitting diode operating and examination light system. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting diode light system has a plurality of light emitting diodes, a focusing ...
California Inventors Develop Color Rendering Filter
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Peter Richards of San Francisco, Andrew Huibers of Palo Alto, Calif., and Michel Combes of Santa Cruz, Calif., have developed a method and a color rendering filter for compensating for deficiency in illumination light from a light source in display ...
Hong Kong Inventor Develops Yeast Cells Treatment Composition
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Ling Yuk Cheung of Hong Kong has developed a method to prepare compositions comprising yeast treated with electromagnetic energy. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and dietary ...
South Korean Inventor Develops Video Cassette Recorder Review Control Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Sung Pyo Hong of Soowun-si, South Korea, has developed a review control method of video cassette recorder. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a review control method of a video cassette recorder capable of ...
Japanese Inventors Develop Lens-barrel Cam Mechanism
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Hiroshi Nomura, Yoshihiro Yamazaki and Isao Okuda, all from Saitama, Japan, have developed a cam mechanism of a lens barrel. An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "A lens-barrel cam mechanism includes first and ...
New York Inventor Develops Real Time Active Network Compartmentalization Method
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Michael C. Dapp of Endwell, N.Y., has developed a method of operating a digital communication network that have a plurality of nodes which have a locally hierarchical relationship. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security policy manager ...
California Inventor Develops Antifuse Circuit
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Fredrick B. Jenne of Los Gatos, Calif., has developed an antifuse circuit with dynamic current limiter. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antifuse cell includes a select transistor, a blocking transistor, and an antifuse. The select ...
Singapore Inventors Develop Transmission Electron Microscopes
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Wen Yi Zhang and Siew Khim Oh, both of Singapore, have developed a method of preparing a planar view transmission electron microscope sample of a planar portion of a circuit layer structure formed on a substrate. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Arizona Inventors Develop Interferometric Profiler
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Bryan W. Guenther and Erik L. Novak, both of Tucson, Ariz., have developed an interferometric profiler that includes an opening adapted to receive a removable compensating element in the reference arm. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The ...
French Inventors Develop Vehicle Wheel Pressure Sensor Information Filter Device
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Laurent Fabre of Portet sur Garonne, France, and Georges Fonzes of Juan-les Pins, France, have developed a method and a device for filtering information emitted by a pressure sensor mounted on a wheel of a vehicle. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...
Hong Kong Inventors Develop Ultrasound Sensor
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Hwa-yaw Tam, Helen L. W. Chan and Bai-ou Guan, all from Hong Kong, have developed an ultrasound sensor and an ultrasound measurement device. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound sensor consists of an optical fiber having an active ...
Japanese Inventor Develops Image Processing Apparatus
May 03, 2007 ... ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 3 -- Eiichi Sato of Kanagawa, Japan, has developed an image forming apparatus for printing data requested to print from a client apparatus via a network. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image forming apparatus comprising determination means ...